Survey of the estate by S Dyer of SCAU, with volunteers from the SyAS, for SCC’s Countryside Management Division. A variety of earthwork features, including lynchets, ridge-and-furrow, hollow ways, boundary banks, quarries, sawpits etc were recorded, indicating that the site was largely used for arable from the medieval period until the 19th century, when the land became increasingly used for grazing and plantations.

Evaluation by J Robertson of SCAU, for SCC’s Resources Dept, of a site proposed for residential development. Three of the trial trenches revealed evidence of modern disturbance. No features or finds of archaeological interest were recovered.

A watching brief by M Dover of SCAU for McAlpine Homes, on residential development works, recovered a number of possible Bronze Age flints from a deposit, probably colluvium, in the southern area of the site.

A watching brief was kept by R Poulton of SCAU for Crown Hall Estates Ltd, on the construction of a new house. Although the site had been disturbed in the recent past and therefore no features survived, a number of sherds of pottery from the 11th/12th centuries down to the 19th century were recovered, including the rim of an 11th/12th century cooking pot.

Survey of the estate by S Dyer of SCAU, with volunteers from SyAS, for SCC’s Countryside Management Division. A variety of earthwork features, including possible lynchets, hollow ways, boundary banks, quarries and a limekiln were recorded, most indicating agricultural activity from the medieval period onwards, with a number of chalk quarries apparently having been excavated as fields went out of use in the post-medieval period.

Evaluation by Tony Champion of SCAU for Albury Estates, of an area proposed for a new lake, revealed a layer of waterlogged silt containing a large number of small pieces of wood, some of which had clearly been cut or worked. Two pieces of struck flint were also recovered. The silt is presumed to represent a former channel of the Tillingbourne, which currently runs to the south of this site.

Excavation by R Poulton of SCAU for English Heritage on the site of the Roman temple, to establish how much damage was being caused following repeated disturbance by metal detectorists. An initial resistivity survey by the archaeometry branch of the Ancient Monuments Laboratory located the southern boundary of the temenos and part of the northern boundary. Excavation revealed that the upper levels of the temple site had been extensively disturbed in the past by previous excavators.

Evaluation by A Powell and C Ellis of Wessex Archaeology, for Lam Watson Woods Architects, in advance of redevelopment of the mill site. Documentary evidence indicates that the site was used for gunpowder production in the late 17th century, but the evaluation produced no evidence for this. The gunpowder works are therefore presumed to have been largely restricted to the area covered by later mills and associated buildings and may, therefore, have been largely destroyed.

A watching brief was kept by R Poulton of SCAU, for Crest Homes, on redevelopment of the hospital site. This revealed that the scale of the development during the later 19th and, more especially, the 20th centuries had destroyed any earlier deposits.

Examination of the cellars by GMVEU found that they had largely been destroyed by the later construction of bank vaults. (292)